Night-sky

The Partial Lunar Eclipse

Posted: June 26, 2010
Filed under: Night Sky

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From bottom right to top left, 8:14pm to 9:38pm AEST (beginning to peak).

I’d planned to shoot right through to the end, but the clouds had other ideas.

In order to shoot a montage like this, you need to capture enough changes as the shadow of the earth moves across the moon to show the full progression of the eclipse. Many more photographs were taken than were used, but it is better to have too many and thus give you the choice of the better photographs than too few and finding your progression stilted. Ideally, you would shoot all the way through from full moon to full moon, however sometimes the weather conditions or even the time of day that the eclipse occurs, will prevent this.

The next eclipse is a total eclipse of the moon on Dec 21st 2010. People on the Eastern coast of Australia should be able to see the second half of the event, as the moon will rise in full eclipse.

Riverfire 2009 – F-111 Dump’n'Burn

Posted: September 17, 2009
Filed under: Night Sky

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Unlike last year the F-111 flyby and dump-n-burn occurred at the end of the show only.
This meant that there was excessive amounts of smoke hanging around when they flew through, marring what might have been a very clear shot.
It still turned out quite well, all things considered.
This shot is the culmination of a day starting [...]